Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Inspiring Earthlings to Boldly Go.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.